Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, " Ferbus said too loudly. "Then it's one-eyed fun.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?